Photographs include images of the Specht Mill, Clear Creek and Gilpin Co. Tunnel, miners, portal, air pipe and receiver at Clear Creek Consolidated, interior and exterior views of Corporation of America Mines in Clear Creek County, Colo

Photographs include images of the Specht Mill, Clear Creek and Gilpin Co. Tunnel, miners, portal, air pipe and receiver at Clear Creek Consolidated, interior and exterior views of Corporation of America Mines in Clear Creek County, Colo

Augustus Ruggles Specht was the owner of Corporation of American Mines (1917), a consolidation of more than 100 mining claims in Gilpin County, Colo., that operated the Clear Creek and Gilpin Tunnel. The tunnel ran between the towns of Dumont and Alice, Colo. Specht lived for several years in Denver at the Brown Palace Hotel.